The surprising effect of clickers in the writing class — from edcetera.rafter.com by Jennifer Funk

Excerpt from section entitled, “How the Clicker Rating Scale Dramatically Improved Writing Workshops” (emphasis DSC):

Nelson decided that rather than use clickers to test procedural knowledge, she’d have students use them during the workshop itself.

So, one by one, she’d take a student’s anonymous rough draft, place it on the document camera, have a volunteer read it aloud, and require students to rate it on a scale of 1-10 according to the assignment criteria.

“Does this memoir make good use of sensory detail to support its contentions and tell its story?” she’d ask, and then wait for each student to click in their 1-10 rating.

After viewing the results, the class would launch into an in-depth discussion about how the essay measured up against the criteria.

 

From DSC:
Some example tools for polling: